Cinematography Round-Up Part Three: What Your Favorite Cinematographers Have Planned
Every movie news site (even the dearly-departed mothership), when it covers a upcoming movie, tends…
The Solute Record Club: R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction
As was already made clear on the Reckoning song “Letter Never Sent,” R.E.M. had a…
The Solute Record Club: Arcade Fire – Reflektor
For all the noted similarities to Achtung Baby era U2 that were given to Reflektor…
Taken 3 Needed More Stuffed Pandas And Coherently Staged Action
Even Liam Neeson seems to be over “action Liam Neeson” at this point. Oh I’m…
The Solute Record Club: Arcade Fire – Funeral
Arcade Fire was a band made to fill big spaces: musical spaces; conceptual spaces; emotional…
The Solute Record Club: U2 – No Line on the Horizon
It is generally in poor form of a reviewer to write about the work in…
Dissolve On (10/17/2015 – 11/01/2015)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, it’s commenting community had The Solute…
The Solute Record Club: U2 – Pop
For a decade in which U2 had embraced irony, their last nineties album being entitled…
“One of Us:” The Triumph of the Monster Kids, Twenty-Five Years Later
Basket Case, writer-director Frank Henenlotter’s bizarre 1982 horror movie, features a seemingly normal young man,…
The Solute Record Club: U2 – Achtung Baby
It is tempting to call records like Achtung Baby transitional, in that they are very…